New PC check please!

[Ghost02]

General rule around xfire/sli is that if you don't do it straight away you most probably never will.

 

[weakest_link]

bwahahahahaahah that sounds so true hey ...

 

[firefly137]

Hi everyone,

This is my first post, i am buying a new PC and would like to run it by u guys just to check that everything will be compatible etc.

So here goes:

Intel core i7 920 2.66ghz
INTEL® "Extreme Series" "Smack Over" X58 - Socket LGA1366
3 x Transcend® JetRam™ High-Performance 2GB DDR3-1333 240-Pin
Coolermaster Full Tower Chassis, HAF932 , Black
Leadtek NVIDIA® GeForce GTS250, 512MB graphics card (temporary card until the DX11 cards come out)
Samsung 25.5" WIDE TFT LCD monitor, 1920 X 1200 - T260
GIGABYTE® ODIN 720W 24-Pin Power Supply
Mecer 600VA OFF-LINE UPS



Tell me what u guys think...

heya i heard that more then 4gb of ram slows down your cpu.... more for the CPU to read or something... so be careful.. make sure

 

[firefly137]

if so then save the cass of the 3rd stick... and buy a higher GPU

 

[Gradius]

it's a good setup, going with a 9800GT hmmm... it's a rebaged 8800GT essentially. And a GTS250 is a rebaged of all the former cards. So why not really?

But it's hard to say, why wait for a DX11 card? They can't even do DX10 right, which was the main selling point of Vista. And see how that bombed....

 

[Gradius]

@firefly127, only hurts the PC if it's running in Windows XP :/

 

[Gradius]

my bad i meant firefly137